16 Jun 2015
By Belle
Belle

Gesture control for your smartwatch and more: Quantified Self weekly links

Products

Aria

Aria

Aria is a sensor attachment for your smartwatch to enable finger-based gesture control. So far there’s only a mailing list available, but if this ships with the features promised, it could be pretty great.

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Software

My Evening Post, Web

My Evening Post

My Evening Post is a journalling app that runs through your email. For $10/month, My Evening Post will send you an email reminder every night. You can reply to the email with text and up to 5 images, which the service will format for you and add to your journal.

  • Rise: 1:1 nutrition coaching, iOS

News and articles

Quantified home birth

Steps graph

This is a fascinating look at how self-tracking devices like the Narrative camera and a Fitbit fit in (or don’t) during momentous-yet-private life events.

Image credits: Deus Ex Technology, My Evening Post, shadow of the stream

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